The Passage: Will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction Stephen King
By (Author) Justin Cronin
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
27th April 2011
12th May 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
1008
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 46mm
680g
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES!
An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil - now a global bestseller.Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world.She is.Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.He's wrong.FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.It is.THE PASSAGE. Soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott.Epic, apocalyptic, heart-wrenching, catastrophic, mesmerising - DAILY MIRROR
If you only take one book away with you this summer, make it THE PASSAGE. It's an absorbing, nightmarish dream of a book, a terrifying apocalyptic thriller, populated by believable, sympathetic characters. Once you start reading it, you won't want it to end - THE TIMESRead 15 pages and you will find yourself captivated; read 30 and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night...read this book and the ordinary world disappears - Stephen KingNot only a brilliantly told story with thrilling plot twists and graphic action sequences, but a moving psychological portrait of survivors facing up to the poignant act of a lost past and a horrifically uncertain future - GUARDIANThis epic tale is truly exhilarating stuff - DAILY EXPRESSJustin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O'Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. His other honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers' Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.